Description of problem: The very first screen of the beta RHR package
needs some clean-up. First, I needed to run "LANG=en_US redhat-ready"
to get a "clean" display (garbage characters due to a different
language). The text needs to be formatted better (see below) and it
appears that only 82% of the text fits in the dialog box.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -q rhr2-rhel4
rhr2-rhel4-0.9-14.9b
How reproducible: 100%
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install rhr2-rhel4
2. run redhat-ready (see the garbage characters?)
3. run LANG=en_US redhat-ready
Actual results: The depiction below is accurate when viewed in
fixed-width font (e.g., in a text editor such as 'vi').
Hardware Certification Testing Suite v.2-0.9
-------------------------------------------------------------------
+============= Welcome - Red Hat Ready ==============+
| Welcome to Red Hat Ready hardware testing. This |
| portion of the certification process tests the |
| OS to hardware interoperability. Completing this |
| portion is an indicator of the certification |
| results not the final outcome. |
| |
| If you've used prior rhr releases you will |
| notice |
| many differences. Some tests have been |
| simplified |
| allowing faster completion while others have |
| been |
| expanded to cover more hardware. Differences are |
|----------------------------------------------- 82%-|
| < OK > |
+====================================================+

The formatting problems are because of a dialog bug (bz #136374) and
are addressed in a newer version of that. I'm curious about the
language and garbage characters. What is the value of LANG that
causes the garbage characters?

Created attachment 105846[details]
guess patch to address garbage characters
don't have an ia64 w/rhel4 beta on it; an i386 looks ok not great; the above
sets everything a little bright but gives the correct lines etc. As well on
i386 like RHEL3 it looks better in X by default.